Thousands of Kurds from EU countries arrived in Brussels to protest police raids and arrests, local media reported on Saturday.
Some 5,000-8,000 ethnic Kurds gathered in the Belgian capital two days after the Belgian police raided Kurdish settlements in Brussels, Antwerp and other Belgian towns and arrested eight people accused of links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party and preparing terrorist attacks in Belgium.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party best known as PKK has been struggling since 1984 to create an independent Kurdish state in Turkey.
The conflict between Kurds and Turkish authorities has taken more than 40,000 lives. The UN and U.S. label the PKK a terrorist organization
BRUSSELS, March 6 (RIA Novosti)
